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Mel Gibson Intends to Make a Series about the Siege of Malta. Well, it is high time to recall the triumph of the Christian defenders of a tiny island in 1565, when an Ottoman armada descended upon it. The Siege of Malta is one of the most heroic and most
Cinema · People
The film will be directed by the actress Emily Mortimer, for whom the project marks her directorial debut. The female lead is played by Alison Oliver, known for Saltburn. The story follows a Russian poet who falls in love with a British student. The action is set in Moscow in
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Paintings from Adrien Brody's debut exhibition in New York as proof that a man cannot be equally bad at two different things. And Brody the painter is even worse than Brody the actor
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Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, 1962
Cinema · Paris · Humour
The first vampire serial appeared as early as 1915, although Les Vampires, shot in France, was in general one of the first serials in history. In essence, though, the vampires figure in it not as supernatural beings but as the name of a criminal society spreading terror in Paris. The
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Art · Cinema · New York
Wes Anderson's new film "The Phoenician Scheme" has opened in New York and Los Angeles. Its hero, Zsa-zsa Korda (played by Benicio del Toro), a charming swindler, hatches a grandiose transcontinental project, the "Phoenician Scheme". But his plan, as is the way of
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The jury of the main competition this year was chaired by the French actress Juliette Binoche.
In the Press · Cinema
The second week of the Cannes Film Festival brought premieres of several notable films. The film critic Andrei Plakhov, in an article for Kommersant, tells of the most eagerly awaited among them. Kirill Serebrennikov's "The Disappearance of Josef Mengele" Out of competition, the festival screened Kirill
Architecture · Cinema · Madrid · Observations · Rome
A little more on architecture. And on cinema. For the filming of The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), a full-scale reconstruction of the Roman Forum was built at Las Matas, near Madrid. Covering 92,000 square metres, four times the size of Red Square, it became the largest
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- I have just confiscated an interesting little item from Mr Potter, a scroll of black magic. - It looks more like a parchment that insults anyone who reads it. But it would be best to examine its possible hidden properties.
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